Summary task duration incorrect

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John V

I've got a problem using Project 2000. The duration displayed for a summary
task isn't correct based on the duration of the subtasks. For instance, my
subtasks may total 40 hours, but the summary task duration may show 5x or
more of that amount. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

John V
 
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JackD

The summary task duration is not the sum of the durations of sub tasks. It
is the duration from the start of the earliest sub task to the finish of the
latest sub task.
 
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John V

Sorry, what I meant was the summary task bar on the Gantt chart will show
the proper duration based on the sub tasks, but the numeric value listed
under the summary bar duration will be way out of whack, significantly
larger than the value shown by it's bar.
 
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Steve House [MVP]

Run that by us again - where exactly are you seeing the two duration values
that you're referring to? I would interpret "by the bar" as over with the
coloured bars on the right hand pane under the timescale rather than in the
task list on the left hand pane but that's not someplace duration shows up
normally unless the view has been customized. Are you sure both of the
numbers you're referring to are actually duration and not that maybe one of
them is work?
 
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John

John V said:
Sorry, what I meant was the summary task bar on the Gantt chart will show
the proper duration based on the sub tasks, but the numeric value listed
under the summary bar duration will be way out of whack, significantly
larger than the value shown by it's bar.

John,
When you say the "numeric value listed under the summary bar duration",
just what do you mean? There is normally a Duration field shown in the
tabular data on the left of a Gantt view and there may or may not be a
value for duration shown in or around the Gantt Bar itself. Also
remember that the physical bar length spans both working and non-working
time but the Duration value is working time. It might also be possible
the value you are seeing is not Duration but Baseline Duration or Actual
Duration.

If none of the above answers your question, post more information (i.e.
values and dates) so we can better help you (note: do not post the file
itself, some of the guys don't like binaries attached to posts). If you
really believe that looking at the actual file is the best way, you can
e-mail it to me and I'll take a look at it.

John
 
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Jan De Messemaeker

Hi,

You probably have to change the definition of "a day" in Tools, Options,
Calendar.
Project works in minutes and conversion to days is acording to that value
You amy see Mon-Fri in your graphics, but whetn the Options say a day is 6
hours the numerical value chown will not be 5 but 6.67
HTH
 

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